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Lynda – Photoshop for Designers – Designing with Grids and Guides

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Lynda – Photoshop for Designers – Designing with Grids and Guides
English | Size: 410.2MB
Category: Tutorial


Designing with grids is an essential part of any designer’s skill set. Guides, grids, and their related tools bring structure and consistency to designs. By suggesting visual relationships, they can also speed workflow and inspire the artwork itself. In this course, designer Nigel French introduces the fundamentals of guides and grids in Photoshop, showing how these tools can improve the way you use the application. Explore how to create, precisely position, delete, and show and hide guides. Learn about the different types of grids, and the “intelligent” features such as Smart Guides, snapping, the GuideGuide plugin, and the New Guide Layout tool. Discover how to set up your own modular layout grid, and then explore the different types of crop overlay grids, from the Rule of Thirds to the Golden Spiral. [Read more…]

Lynda – Learning Astute Graphics for Illustrator

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Lynda – Learning Astute Graphics for Illustrator
English | Size: 954.7MB
Category: Tutorial


The Astute Graphics plugins can help you be more precise, efficient, and creative with Adobe Illustrator. In this course, learn how these plugins can revolutionize the way you draw and edit artwork in Illustrator. Instructor Mike Rankin explains what each plugin does and discusses how these plugins can offer more efficiency and features not available in the native Illustrator tools. Mike covers drawing and editing with VectorScribe and InkScribe, aligning and arranging objects with ColliderScribe, creating beautiful symmetry with MirrorMe, and adjusting color and applying effects with Phantasm. He also goes over tools in DynamicSketch and WidthScribe that make drawing with a tablet even more natural and intuitive. [Read more…]

Gnomon Digital Training Contemporary Set Design DDE-TACTiLE

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Gnomon Digital Training Contemporary Set Design DDE-TACTiLE
English | Size: 599 MB
Category: Tutorial


In this third of three titles in a series, James will cover a wide range of Adobe Photoshop® techniques that he uses as a concept designer in the feature film industry. Focusing on the subject of a contemporary loft interior as a film set, James acts as a location manager, production designer and illustrator to visually explain a common feature film art department pipeline technique. Setting itself apart from other concept art techniques, this lecture concentrates heavily on the smooth integration of photo reference and high-end conceptualization ideas, or what James terms “Photoshop® kit bashing”, blurring the line between photo and ideation rendering. Subjects such as using photo scrap as virtual set pieces, texture mapping in 2D, and rendering a wide range of materials from brushed steel to polished hardwood floor are also covered. [Read more…]

CreativeTechs Complete 10-Week Photoshop CS4 Course

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CreativeTechs Complete 10-Week Photoshop CS4 Course
English | Size: 3.91 GB
Category: Tutorial


A collection of video tutorials from Creativetechs. There are eleven classes in all, including the bonus lesson on colour correction. Each class runs for about an hour, and afterwards you can view the Q&A sessions that took place after each weeks class. For Beginners to Advanced. Almost all the Photoshop aspects are covered, from the Basics to Retouching and Color Correction, this is one of the more comprehensive and easy-to-learn tutorials in the market today. Each course is accompanied with an eBook. [Read more…]

1000 Contamporary Silhouette Designs

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1000 Contamporary Silhouette Designs
English | Size: 103 MB
Category: Tutorial


In contemporary society, professionals in the visual arts have a huge range of graphic resources available to them. It has become increasingly necessary to communicate an idea by means of a symbol or logo expressing the message we want to broadcast. “1000 Contemporary Silhouette Designs” provides inspiration for both the professional and the amateur to communicate their ideas immediately in an effective way, offering more than 900 different silhouettes, consisting of figures and objects from various jobs, pastimes, attitudes and situations. A CD-ROM is included, with all the images from the book in EPS format, ready to use; all graphics included are royalty free.
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Udemy – Illustrator CC MasterClass

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Udemy – Illustrator CC MasterClass
English | Size: 1.8GB
Category: Tutorial


Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard vector graphics application that lets you create logos, icons, sketches, typography and complex illustrations for print, web, interactive, video and mobile devices.

In this course we are going to start from the very basics like how to draw circles and rectangles all the way to creating complex illustrations, logos, business cards and so much more. With Illustrator CC MasterClass you will learn the best ways of doing everything in Illustrator so you can be confident which tool or feature to use in every situation.
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Lynda – Photoshop Tips, Tricks, & Techniques

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Lynda – Photoshop Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
English | Size: 1.6GB
Category: Tutorial


Harness the power of Adobe Photoshop CC by learning quick tips and techniques that can help you get better-looking images and speed up your post-production workflow. In this course, Rich Harrington helps you build your image-editing skills by demonstrating how to solve common problems using Photoshop. Rich covers an array of issues-for example, dark circles under the eyes of a subject-and provides techniques you can use to efficiently address each problem. Rich goes over sizing images, dealing with exposure problems, fixing color issues, tackling skin problems, and controlling focus and backgrounds.
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Skillshare – Introduction to Photoshop – Digital Painting and Illustration with Damien Mammoliti

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Skillshare – Introduction to Photoshop – Digital Painting and Illustration with Damien Mammoliti
English | Size: 128.6MB
Category: Tutorial


In this course, I am going to share my process with you!

We will cover the basics of Photoshop for digital painting and illustration. The class will explore tools and techniques for translating color theory into the digital space.

Photoshop is a key program used in all creative industries. It is critical that an artist understands how to paint comfortably in Photoshop, as it is a versatile and efficient tool. From concept art to book illustration, Photoshop can be used by painters to broaden their potential client list and students can learn to apply this skill to an industry of their choice. [Read more…]

Skillshare – Color Workshop – The Basics for Artists and Illustrators with Gabrielle DeCesaris

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Skillshare – Color Workshop – The Basics for Artists and Illustrators with Gabrielle DeCesaris
English | Size: 120.8MB
Category: Tutorial


Learn how to bring your art and illustrations to life with the power of color! In this class, Gabrielle breaks down color into it’s most basic properties, making this complex element of design immediately easier to tackle!

Learn color tricks, all about color schemes, and how to create your own inspiring color palettes. Gabrielle will also explain how colors relate to emotions and moods, and how these ideas can be used in story telling. Lastly, Gabrielle will share practical tips, as well as tried and true principles that will help you effectively use color to enhance the beauty of your compositions. [Read more…]

Lynda – Illustrator for Fashion Design: Advanced Drawing Flats

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Lynda – Illustrator for Fashion Design: Advanced Drawing Flats
English | Size: 1.3GB
Category: Tutorial


Learn how to draw technical flats quickly and efficiently using Adobe Illustrator, with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions from fashion design instructor Robin Schneider. Generate professional-quality fashion flats in no time with her timesaving tricks. Find out how to use templates, build custom keyboard shortcuts and actions, and make fashion brushes that you can use to “paint” details such as stitching, zippers, and trim. Learn how to create a bank of reusable symbols for common elements such as button holes and drawstrings. Discover how to build realistic pattern fills from scratch or using fabric scans. Robin brings it all together for some examples drawing denim and knitwear, and provides tips to modify existing flats, such as adapting pants from straight leg to boot cut. Last but not least, explore professional practices that incorporate style guides, libraries, and sources, for a more consistent style and a more collaborative workflow. [Read more…]